Nutrition and Heart Disease : Causation and Prevention.
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Ronald R Watson; Victor R Preedy
- ناشر : London : CRC Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2003
- شابک / ISBN : 9780203507629
Description
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Contents; 1 The Role of the Dietitian in Reducing Cardiovascular Risk:An Evidence-Based Approach; 2 Seafood and Myocardial Infarction in China; 3 Low Occurrence of CHD in Sub-Saharan African Populations; 4 Dietary Prevention of CHD: Insights into the Mediterranean Diet; 5 Effects of Nutritional Education on Cardiovascular Risk Factors; 6 Micronutrients and Cardiovascular Disease; 7 Leptin and Blood Pressure; 8 Retinol, Beta-Carotene, and Alpha-Tocopherol in Heart Disease; 9 Folate, Homocysteine, and Heart Disease. 10 Flavonoids Extracted and in Foods: Role in Hypertension Prevention and Treatment11 High-Carbohydrate Diets and Lipid Metabolism; 12 Vasculoprotective Effects of Olive Oil: Epidemiological Background and Direct Vascular Antiatherogenic Properties; 13 Cardiovascular Effects of Dietary Soy; 14 Malnutrition and the Heart: A Pediatric Perspective; 15 Plant Sterols and Stanols, Lipoprotein Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Disease; 16 Non-
Pulling together current knowledge on nutrition's role in the treatment of heart disease, Nutrition and Heart Disease: Prevention and Treatment is a comprehensive desk reference for nutrition and cardiovascular researchers, primary care physicians, and dieticians. It discusses the roles of nutrition and diet in the prevention of heart damage and dysfunction and how dietary agents such as fats and alcohol can increase as well as reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. The book also includes the importance of water and other beverages in the diet, and provides information on special diets tha.
